Output from running test script: *** glibc detected *** python: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7de0de0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7eb27cd] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xb7eb5e30] /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Scientific/linux2/Scientific_netcdf.so[0xb7d82efe] python[0x8085269] python(PyDict_SetItem+0x6e)[0x8086bae] python(_PyModule_Clear+0x158)[0x8088808] python(PyImport_Cleanup+0x153)[0x80dcc63] python(Py_Finalize+0xbf)[0x80e8e5f] python(Py_Main+0x4d1)[0x8058e41] python(main+0x22)[0x8058862] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0xb7e60ebc] python[0x80587b1] ======= Memory map: ======== 08048000-0813f000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 655424 /usr/bin/python2.5 0813f000-08164000 rw-p 000f6000 08:07 655424 /usr/bin/python2.5 08164000-081dd000 rw-p 08164000 00:00 0 [heap] b7c00000-b7c21000 rw-p b7c00000 00:00 0 b7c21000-b7d00000 ---p b7c21000 00:00 0 b7d23000-b7d2e000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 737554 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7d2e000-b7d2f000 rw-p 0000a000 08:05 737554 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7d2f000-b7d43000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 278720 /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric/_numpy.so b7d43000-b7d45000 rw-p 00013000 08:07 278720 /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric/_numpy.so b7d45000-b7d7b000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 132087 /usr/lib/libnetcdf.so.3.6.1 b7d7b000-b7d7c000 rw-p 00035000 08:07 132087 /usr/lib/libnetcdf.so.3.6.1 b7d7c000-b7d7d000 rw-p b7d7c000 00:00 0 b7d7d000-b7d85000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 278713 /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Scientific/linux2/Scientific_netcdf.so b7d85000-b7d86000 rw-p 00007000 08:07 278713 /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Scientific/linux2/Scientific_netcdf.so b7d86000-b7d8d000 r--s 00000000 08:07 131864 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache b7d8d000-b7dc8000 r--p 00000000 08:07 180227 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_CTYPE b7dc8000-b7e4b000 rw-p b7dc8000 00:00 0 b7e4b000-b7f86000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 807011 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.5.so b7f86000-b7f87000 r--p 0013b000 08:05 807011 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.5.so b7f87000-b7f89000 rw-p 0013c000 08:05 807011 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.5.so b7f89000-b7f8c000 rw-p b7f89000 00:00 0 b7f8c000-b7fb1000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 807062 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.5.so b7fb1000-b7fb3000 rw-p 00024000 08:05 807062 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.5.so b7fb3000-b7fb5000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 807085 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.5.so b7fb5000-b7fb7000 rw-p 00001000 08:05 807085 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.5.so b7fb7000-b7fb8000 rw-p b7fb7000 00:00 0 b7fb8000-b7fba000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 807060 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.5.so b7fba000-b7fbc000 rw-p 00001000 08:05 807060 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.5.so b7fbc000-b7fcf000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 807080 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.5.so b7fcf000-b7fd1000 rw-p 00013000 08:05 807080 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.5.so b7fd1000-b7fd3000 rw-p b7fd1000 00:00 0 b7fe2000-b7fe4000 rw-p b7fe2000 00:00 0 b7fe4000-b7ffd000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 737590 /lib/ld-2.5.so b7ffd000-b7fff000 rw-p 00019000 08:05 737590 /lib/ld-2.5.so bfb2c000-bfb42000 rw-p bfb2c000 00:00 0 [stack] ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Abort (core dumped)